linux/fs/proc
Alexey Dobriyan d919b33daf proc: faster open/read/close with "permanent" files
Now that "struct proc_ops" exist we can start putting there stuff which
could not fly with VFS "struct file_operations"...

Most of fs/proc/inode.c file is dedicated to make open/read/.../close
reliable in the event of disappearing /proc entries which usually happens
if module is getting removed.  Files like /proc/cpuinfo which never
disappear simply do not need such protection.

Save 2 atomic ops, 1 allocation, 1 free per open/read/close sequence for such
"permanent" files.

Enable "permanent" flag for

	/proc/cpuinfo
	/proc/kmsg
	/proc/modules
	/proc/slabinfo
	/proc/stat
	/proc/sysvipc/*
	/proc/swaps

More will come once I figure out foolproof way to prevent out module
authors from marking their stuff "permanent" for performance reasons
when it is not.

This should help with scalability: benchmark is "read /proc/cpuinfo R times
by N threads scattered over the system".

	N	R	t, s (before)	t, s (after)
	-----------------------------------------------------
	64	4096	1.582458	1.530502	-3.2%
	256	4096	6.371926	6.125168	-3.9%
	1024	4096	25.64888	24.47528	-4.6%

Benchmark source:

#include <chrono>
#include <iostream>
#include <thread>
#include <vector>

#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <unistd.h>

const int NR_CPUS = sysconf(_SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN);
int N;
const char *filename;
int R;

int xxx = 0;

int glue(int n)
{
	cpu_set_t m;
	CPU_ZERO(&m);
	CPU_SET(n, &m);
	return sched_setaffinity(0, sizeof(cpu_set_t), &m);
}

void f(int n)
{
	glue(n % NR_CPUS);

	while (*(volatile int *)&xxx == 0) {
	}

	for (int i = 0; i < R; i++) {
		int fd = open(filename, O_RDONLY);
		char buf[4096];
		ssize_t rv = read(fd, buf, sizeof(buf));
		asm volatile ("" :: "g" (rv));
		close(fd);
	}
}

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
	if (argc < 4) {
		std::cerr << "usage: " << argv[0] << ' ' << "N /proc/filename R
";
		return 1;
	}

	N = atoi(argv[1]);
	filename = argv[2];
	R = atoi(argv[3]);

	for (int i = 0; i < NR_CPUS; i++) {
		if (glue(i) == 0)
			break;
	}

	std::vector<std::thread> T;
	T.reserve(N);
	for (int i = 0; i < N; i++) {
		T.emplace_back(f, i);
	}

	auto t0 = std::chrono::system_clock::now();
	{
		*(volatile int *)&xxx = 1;
		for (auto& t: T) {
			t.join();
		}
	}
	auto t1 = std::chrono::system_clock::now();
	std::chrono::duration<double> dt = t1 - t0;
	std::cout << dt.count() << '
';

	return 0;
}

P.S.:
Explicit randomization marker is added because adding non-function pointer
will silently disable structure layout randomization.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding style fixes]
Reported-by: kbuild test robot <lkp@intel.com>
Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200222201539.GA22576@avx2
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2020-04-07 10:43:42 -07:00
..
array.c time: Rename tsk->real_start_time to ->start_boottime 2019-11-13 11:09:49 +01:00
base.c proc: io_accounting: Use new infrastructure to fix deadlocks in execve 2020-03-25 10:04:01 -05:00
bootconfig.c proc: bootconfig: Add /proc/bootconfig to show boot config list 2020-01-13 13:19:39 -05:00
cmdline.c proc: introduce proc_create_single{,_data} 2018-05-16 07:23:35 +02:00
consoles.c treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 191 2019-05-30 11:29:21 -07:00
cpuinfo.c proc: faster open/read/close with "permanent" files 2020-04-07 10:43:42 -07:00
devices.c proc: introduce proc_create_seq{,_data} 2018-05-16 07:23:35 +02:00
fd.c proc: use "unsigned int" in proc_fill_cache() 2018-06-07 17:34:38 -07:00
fd.h License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
generic.c proc: faster open/read/close with "permanent" files 2020-04-07 10:43:42 -07:00
inode.c proc: faster open/read/close with "permanent" files 2020-04-07 10:43:42 -07:00
internal.h proc: faster open/read/close with "permanent" files 2020-04-07 10:43:42 -07:00
interrupts.c proc: introduce proc_create_seq{,_data} 2018-05-16 07:23:35 +02:00
Kconfig x86/resctrl: Add task resctrl information display 2020-01-20 16:19:10 +01:00
kcore.c proc: convert everything to "struct proc_ops" 2020-02-04 03:05:26 +00:00
kmsg.c proc: faster open/read/close with "permanent" files 2020-04-07 10:43:42 -07:00
loadavg.c sched: loadavg: consolidate LOAD_INT, LOAD_FRAC, CALC_LOAD 2018-10-26 16:26:32 -07:00
Makefile proc: bootconfig: Add /proc/bootconfig to show boot config list 2020-01-13 13:19:39 -05:00
meminfo.c proc/meminfo: fix output alignment 2019-10-19 06:32:32 -04:00
namespaces.c Merge branch 'work.openat2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2020-01-29 11:20:24 -08:00
nommu.c treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 152 2019-05-30 11:26:32 -07:00
page.c proc: convert everything to "struct proc_ops" 2020-02-04 03:05:26 +00:00
proc_net.c proc: decouple proc from VFS with "struct proc_ops" 2020-02-04 03:05:26 +00:00
proc_sysctl.c proc: Use d_invalidate in proc_prune_siblings_dcache 2020-02-24 09:50:04 -06:00
proc_tty.c tty: replace ->proc_fops with ->proc_show 2018-05-16 07:24:30 +02:00
root.c proc: Remove the now unnecessary internal mount of proc 2020-02-28 12:06:14 -06:00
self.c fs/proc/self.c: code cleanup for proc_setup_self() 2019-03-05 21:07:21 -08:00
softirqs.c proc: introduce proc_create_single{,_data} 2018-05-16 07:23:35 +02:00
stat.c proc: faster open/read/close with "permanent" files 2020-04-07 10:43:42 -07:00
task_mmu.c mm: pagewalk: add 'depth' parameter to pte_hole 2020-02-04 03:05:25 +00:00
task_nommu.c proc: use down_read_killable mmap_sem for /proc/pid/maps 2019-07-12 11:05:46 -07:00
thread_self.c fs/proc/thread_self.c: code cleanup for proc_setup_thread_self() 2019-03-05 21:07:21 -08:00
uptime.c fs/proc: Respect boottime inside time namespace for /proc/uptime 2020-01-14 12:20:56 +01:00
util.c fs/proc/util.c: include fs/proc/internal.h for name_to_int() 2019-01-04 13:13:45 -08:00
version.c proc: introduce proc_create_single{,_data} 2018-05-16 07:23:35 +02:00
vmcore.c proc: convert everything to "struct proc_ops" 2020-02-04 03:05:26 +00:00